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Twenty-five years after its initial publication, The Making of the Atomic Bomb remains the definitive history of
nuclear weapons and the Manhattan Project. From the turn-of-the-century discovery of nuclear energy to the
dropping of the first bombs on Japan, Richard Rhodesâ€™s Pulitzer Prize-winning book details the science, the
people, and the socio-political realities that led to the development of the atomic bomb.
This sweeping account begins in the 19th century, with the discovery of nuclear fission, and continues to World
War Two and the Americansâ€™ race to beat Hitlerâ€™s Nazis. That competition launched the Manhattan
Project and the nearly overnight construction of a vast military-industrial complex that culminated in the fateful
dropping of the first bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Reading like a character-driven suspense novel, the book introduces the players in this saga of physics, politics,
and human psychologyâ€”from FDR and Einstein to the visionary scientists who pioneered quantum theory and
the application of thermonuclear fission, including Planck, Szilard, Bohr, Oppenheimer, Fermi, Teller, Meitner,
von Neumann, and Lawrence.
From nuclear powerâ€™s earliest foreshadowing in the work of H.G. Wells to the bright glare of Trinity at
Alamogordo and the arms race of the Cold War, this dread invention forever changed the course of human
history, and The Making of The Atomic Bomb provides a panoramic backdrop for that story.
Richard Rhodesâ€™s ability to craft compelling biographical portraits is matched only by his rigorous
scholarship. Told in rich human, political, and scientific detail that any reader can follow, The Making of the
Atomic Bomb